[openbeos] Re: BeIDE Projects?!

  • From: "anilv" <anilv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:21:10 +0530

i also agree with XML. 

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>From: openbeos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:openbeos-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Andrew Edward McCall
>Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 12:16 PM
>To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [openbeos] Re: BeIDE Projects?!
>
>
>>
>>> I just downloaded the OBOS CVS. It has next to nothing in it (shame 
>on 
>>> you!). What it has, and is not the kernel, consists in 
>large part of 
>>> BeIDE projects (shame on you again!). Please use makefiles. 
>They run 
>on 
>>> ppc and x86 and are a standard. Also, you can do batch makes of the 
>>> project to compile the whole tree.
>>
>>Wow, a pretty well constructed rant...you make me proud.
>> 
>>> I would suggest an absolute moratorium on BeIDE projects in CVS.
>>
>>I would suggest scrapping Makefiles completely in favor of an XML 
>>format. Makefiles are those kind of things that require a small furry
>>animal to be sacrificed and lots of voodoo to be done from scratch
>>because no one really is left who knows exactly how to make them
>>despite the volumes of books that have stacked up on the topic.
>>Magical tabs and spacies require late night rituals to get past...
>>Let it die. Projects or bust.
>
>I agree with XML.
>
>And I think that this should be decided on soon, I too have 
>two projects 
>with BeIDE project files building up on my hard disk.
>
>Actually, I don't even know how to commit them!
>
>Thanks
>
>Andrew Edward McCall
>mccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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